Showing posts with label Adventures In Outer Space. Show all posts

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Space Object Puzzle Nasa

The strange object in the above sequence was captured on film by the Night Sky Live (NSL) project on December 17th, 2004. The NSL has a vast network of continuously updating web cameras (CONCAMs) that are fixed to watch the night sky. The object, which was filmed by the fisheye CONCAM perched on top of an active volcano in Haleakala, Hawaii, saw something moving across the night sky that remains mysterious. The NSL team might have disregarded the above streak as unconfirmed, but the Mauna Kea CONCAM on the next Hawaiian island recorded the same thing. The NSL team might then have disregarded the streak as a satellite, but no record of it was found in the heavens-above.com site that usually documents bright satellite events.

A NASA website which hosts the above image includes an online discussion board for people to speculate about what the streak might have been.

One poster wrote: "What is truly bizarre is that this object is visible for a good 55 minutes at Haleakala and close to 30 minutes at Mauna Kea. Usually, satellites take a few dozen seconds or, at the most, a couple of minutes to cross the entire sky.

"If this object is a satellite, it is either very slow moving or at a very high altitude. I checked all the possibilities at Heavens-Above and no satellite passes seem to fit this observation. It is also impossible to be a meteorite."

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Cactus-Munching In Ecuador

Head to South America seek out a shaman and spend the night in a hallucinogenic trance after slicing it up boiling it for seven hours and then drinking.
Try It If:Skunk just doesn't do it for you anymore.

Drink Vine In The Amazon

If the idea of sitting in a hut and seeing visions that scares you half to death sounds a hoot,the Ayahuasca vine is your friend.It's made into a brew and then drunk , and you can book a visit to an Ayuhuasca medical retreat with
visit:www.shamanism.co.uk
Try It If: You're partial to wearing a bit of tie-dye.

Unusual Food Trails

Eat the worm
Forget tequila, if it's a spirit-soaked worm you seek-get some mescal made from the agave plant, the fiery brew after features an edible larva to give it a distinct taste: sip it t in Mexico's Oaxaca region the dimes spiritual home.
Try It If:You have a strong stomach.

Rest In Space

Want to get space for a great deal cheaper? Dead? We have the answer for you. For as little as RM2,100 these boys will cheerily send some of your ashes galactic.
visit:www.memorialspaceflights.com
Try It If:You're corpse.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Catch The Lift Into Orbit

Four hundred and sixty humans,50 mice, 35 dogs,25 monkeys,three rats,two cats,a pair of bullfrogs and a tortoise have all ventured into space.
Now US company spcace Adventures is claming it will double that 10 years. And at a cost of RM63 million, there's a seat free on the Soyuz TMA-13 in late 2008 with your name on it. The vacancy's been left by internet boss Daisuke Enomotto whowas set to fly in fancy dress but was grounded due to medical reasons .
visit://www.spaceadventures.com
Try It If:You own the internet.

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

The Peter Answers

How to Use Peter Answers

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Peter answers is a fun little website in which "Peter" appears to read your mind. Use it to prank your friends or to just have a little fun.

Steps

Visit http://www.peteranswers.com where there are two text boxes: "Insert Petition" and "Insert Question."
Ask your audience for a question. If it's a question you know the answer to, proceed to the next step. If it's a question you don't know the answer to, you can ask them for the answer, telling them that if they say the question and answer out loud, Peter will hear them with his psychic powers. If you don't know the answer, you won't be able to follow the next step, and Peter will answer with a very generic statement like "You shall not doubt of me at all, keep trusting on me and soon I'll answer." In other words, the trick won't work!
Enter text into the petition box. The directions tell you to type in either "Peter, please answer the following question:" or "Peter, please answer:" in the petition box. What your audience doesn't know is that you're telling Peter the answer...
- Note the colon ":" at the end of each of these queries. This is essential because without it, you will not be able to proceed to the question box. Once you type the phrase and enter the colon, your cursor will automatically move to the question box.
- Instead of typing "Peter, please answer the following question:" or "Peter, please answer:" start off your petition with a period followed by the answer you're looking for. For example, if you intend to ask "Why is wikiHow the best how-to manual ever?" then in the petition box you would type.Because it's a group effort
- As you type the answer you're looking for, that's not what you will see showing up in the text box. You will see the standard petition being typed, even though you're typing something completely different. Your audience, however, will have their eyes on the screen and will never suspect that you're giving Peter the answer.
- Your answer should be shorter than one of the standard petitions. When you finish typing the answer, the standard petition will still need to be finished on the screen. In the following screenshot, all that has been typed is ".Because it's a group effort."
- So, after you type the answer, end it with a period. The period will show up as another character of the petition. After the period, however, anything you type will show up on the screen as you type it. Finish whatever is left of the query and send it off with a colon. In this screenshot, the actual typing was ".Because it's a group effort.owing:"
Type in the question. Be sure to end it with a question mark "?". As soon as you enter the question mark, a box will appear with some warnings about privacy. For Peter to answer the question, you'll need to click the "I Accept" button.
Watch as Peter thinks for a second and then displays the answer that you typed. If your audience doesn't know that you typed in the answer, they will be flabbergasted. You can probably keep them amazed for quite a while as long as they don't start paying close attention to what your fingers are actually typing.

Tips

When you're typing in the petition box, it helps to NOT look at the screen, because it can throw you off and make you forget what you're typing. Instead, look down as you type the answer. Only look up after you've typed the period to check how much of the query is finished.
Peter is only as accurate as you are, so if you enter a typo, Peter will answer with a typo, and people will get suspicious pretty quickly. If you think you made a mistake, you can backspace and start again at any point. If you delete all of what you entered, remember to enter a period again to signal to Peter that you're entering the answer. But, deleting everything you entered is not a good idea because people will wonder why you're erasing a perfectly good petition.
If you're typing a short answer, you can save time by completing only the shorter petition phrase (Peter, please answer:)
You can also tell your viewers to stare at the screen so that they can correct any spelling errors that you might make.

Warnings

Peter will accept and display answers that are longer than the petition phrase, but it will be pretty obvious something is up if you continue to type after the screen displays the entire petition phrase. Nothing more will show up once you've reached the end of the phrase. Once in a while, at the bottom instead of the repeating "Peter answers:..." it will say "Emily answers" or another name. No one knows for sure what happens at that point.
As soon as you type a colon ":" the cursor will automatically jump to the question box, even if you haven't finished typing out the petition. This will likely ruin the illusion, so don't accidentally type that colon too soon.

Sources and Citations

PeterAnswers.com

Article provided by wikiHow, a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Use Peter Answers. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.

Technorati Profile Subscribe to "GoogleDevelopers" via Code-groups in Google Reader by Email

Get Indexed